tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9818962.post114267915170940262..comments2024-03-20T13:10:11.477+05:30Comments on nanopolitan: The Economist on open source projectsAbihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06790560045313883673noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9818962.post-1144242907739858042006-04-05T18:45:00.000+05:302006-04-05T18:45:00.000+05:30bizrules: Thanks for your comment. I agree with yo...bizrules: Thanks for your comment. I agree with you that Steven Weber's comment was quite atrocious. <BR/><BR/>In this story, at least, the Economist got so many things wrong, yet it maintained an authoritative tone! This magazine is a sneaky animal, isn't it?!Abihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06790560045313883673noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9818962.post-1144171711805092572006-04-04T22:58:00.000+05:302006-04-04T22:58:00.000+05:30Good points about the self interest versus altruis...Good points about the self interest versus altruism claim. What bugged me more was this quote from Steven Weber:<BR/><BR/><I>“Linux is good at doing what other things already have done, but more cheaply—but can it do anything new? Wikipedia is an assembly of already-known knowledge,” he says.</I><BR/><BR/>Now I've been around a while, and can remember when Usenet was just one newsgroup. Pretty much everything of substance involving the Internet has a big dash of open source to it. In fact, the WWW was pioneered by open source developers. To single out Linux, one of the few Open Source projects explicitly intended to replace an exiting product (various flavors of Unix, not MS), is naive.<BR/><BR/>Anyhow, you can read more of a rant on this <A HREF="http://blogs.pathf.com/agileajax/2006/03/economist_gets_.html" REL="nofollow">here</A>.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13441809988487585009noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9818962.post-1142861261563001762006-03-20T18:57:00.000+05:302006-03-20T18:57:00.000+05:30Hi Tarun,Thanks for dropping by, and for those kin...Hi Tarun,<BR/><BR/>Thanks for dropping by, and for those kind words!Abihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06790560045313883673noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9818962.post-1142697358296179342006-03-18T21:25:00.000+05:302006-03-18T21:25:00.000+05:30Really good template-modifications (on both blogs)...Really good template-modifications (on both blogs).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com